Music, magic, and moustaches - Samannaz Kourang Pishdadi talks to Rouzbeh Esfandarmaz about the many colours of Iran’s Pallett
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Iran: Unedited History
Natasha Morris on an ambitious exhibition of contemporary Iranian art at Paris’ Musée d’Art Moderne spanning over 50 years and featuring over 200 works by over 20 artists
A Thousand Years of the Persian Book
Kevin Schwartz on an exhibition at Washington, DC’s Library of Congress celebrating a millennium of Persian textual production from Iran and beyond
My Grandfather’s Room
‘His house was full of welcoming mysteries, except for one room on the top floor called “the salon”. It was rarely open, and only used for “important” visitors …’
Sin City
Joobin Bekhrad on the rise and fall of Iran’s iconic Qajar monarch, Nasereddin Shah, with a focus on the recent work of artist Siamak Filizadeh
Reflections of Persia
‘Riccardo’s Iran, discovered and rediscovered … becomes a mirror in which the world and its distant lands appear before one’s eyes’
Do You Remember?
Pendar Nabipour on the post-Revolution generation of Iran, its collective memories, and the celebration of the popular culture of the 80s and early 90s
Iranian Woman
‘Though it has been stifled, suppressed, and outlawed, the voice of the Iranian woman still resonates as boldly and beautifully as ever’
Waiting for the Sun
‘Day and night I tore myself to shreds so the sun would come …’ - a reflection on Hamed Nikpay’s performance at the Tirgan Iranian Festival
An Epic Remix
Joobin Bekhrad talks to US-based multimedia artist Hamid Rahmanian about his modern visual retelling of Ferdowsi’s epic Persian masterpiece